Restaurant Brands International owns Burger King, Tim Hortons, Popeye’s Chicken, and Firehouse Subs
Fuck RBI, they are lying war profiteers putting tax revenue in the hand of the Kremlin which it uses to fund it’s war of genocide in Ukraine. Do not eat in any of their restaurants
Are you also telling us how much they own of those Burger King franchises in Russia they are supposed to shut down?
They are getting paid 100% of the franchise fees of their Russian businesses.
You don’t own franchise partners by definition. They are individually owned restaurants that pay you a fee to use your brand (name, menu, marketing, etc.).
„Shutting down“ here means: Don’t renew these franchise contracts. The restaurants will continue to exist, but they will have to rebrand and be less lucrative.
but they will have to rebrand and be less lucrative.
And what do you do if those Russian franchise owners refuse to rebrand and continue using the BK name, supplies and signage?
Do you stop providing logistical support? Do you cut them off the BK supply chain (shut that down too) and not provide any new menu items / marketing materials?
Has BK done that?
I thought burger king staying was the punishment
Capital Scum doing capitalist scum shit.
Every hexbear comment reads like AI trained only on the Tumblr accounts of 14 year old boys with Stalin body pillows.
Have some lemme.ee gold friend
Fucking savage 😂
Absolutely brilliant description.
Say anything remotely negative about Dictatorship 1 and Dictatorship 2, and they come scrambling out of the woodwork with a long rant full of lies, stupidity, and revisionism and a couple of those cringe ass, unnecessarily large emojis to go with it. Honestly sick of them. Individual instance filtering can’t come fast enough.
Yuuuuup.
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There has been a lot of debate on this. Is it cruel and unusaul punishments. Have the russiand done things so bad to deserve burger king. only time will tell.
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when you see right, support that, when you see wrong, fight that. simple.
Don’t like it, don’t go there. Tell them why.
Personally I’m boycotting them. Not because of any moral justification, but because they sell overpriced disappointing mulch.
Burger King will never see a single cent from me, fucking traitors
I simply don’t get this mentality. I’m sure you do realize, that companies such as Microsoft still operate in Russia. You think all people over there are running Linux? Aside from how unbelievably stupid your take is, guess they are traitors too. But you’ll still keep using their OS and Office suite for millenia to come.
MS stopped selling licenses last year and blocked the ones operating this year (non renewal). But I get your point, only not all the big companies stayed
What exactly did they block? You can still buy any Microsoft product in Russia, your online subscriptions are still billed in rubles, you can pay them from any card Visa or Mastercard accept. As of now there are no problems at all with Microsoft products in Russia.
Sorry, don’t get your point. A company may say one thing like Burger King said they will dump Russia. The reality at least currently with both Burger King and Microsoft is another thing.
Since I’m not living in Russia I can’t tell you what exactly is happening there but I can read what they told the world (with no one telling it’s false)
MS stopped selling licenses last year
That must be why they finally killed hwidgen
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Extend that to all companies and capitalism is over party.
Slow news day I assume?
No news means good news. Maybe that’s just me being pessimistic tho.
AFAIK, the situation with Burger King, is that unlike McDonalds, BK doesn’t have much leverage over Russian franchisee’s. They can try and say “close the stores, we’re leaving”, but the actual store owners would just say “no” and re-brand them back to “Rostik’s”. They don’t really have any assets in Russia so there’s nothing really to sell either, but they do still receive the franchise fees. So pulling out would only benefit Russia
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So you say I should ignore all the injustice in the world just because I cannot care about all of them?
That’s just stupid
why can’t you care about all of them. Also how is burger king selling burgers injustice?
You know you can care about multiple things at once, right?
OK?
Classic Russian whataboutism
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Can Burger King pull out of the US first? Absolutely the worst fast food chain ever. The only reason anybody goes to BK is if McDonald’s is on fire.
Personally I prefer Burger King over McDonald’s. Haven’t been since the first BK opened in my city.
At least for vegetarian options they are way ahead of McDonalds
Can’t speak for the rest of the menu though
Yeah, in Finland at least the vegan Whopper is waaaaaaaay better than what McD or other similar franchises offer.
If BK food in the US is any indication of the quality in Russia, let them stay open. Worst of the worst as far as fast food goes. It’s economic warfare with none of the war crimes! /s
BK in Russia? Smh I thought biological warfare was illegal.
My condolences to the Russians.
Спасибо за поддержку. Мы стараемся держаться и попытаемся пережить это неописуемое горе.
